adjective
definition
Lacking freshness, motion, or flow; decaying through stillness.
example
a stagnant pool
definition
Without progress or change; stale; inactive.
example
a stagnant economy
Examples of stagnant in a Sentence
A stagnant pool was useless.
She walked down the alley, nose wrinkling at the scents of trash and stagnant water.
I don't want to get stagnant in one job, one career or one thing.
The climate is by nature unhealthy, the supply of running water being small, and that of stagnant water, from which arises a fatal malaria, being considerable.
They form a region of salt lakes and stagnant marshes, relieved by wide flat spaces of open plateau country.
Salt is obtained from stagnant lakes and from certain parts of the desert.
The preliminary stages of all mosquitoes are passed in water, either fresh or salt, stagnant or slightly moving.
The ova of Culex, on the other hand, are deposited in any stagnant water, including cesspools, drains, cisterns, or water collected in any vessel; they float in boat-shaped masses on the surface.
A clear mountain pool has life, as opposed to a stagnant pond.
Europe is becoming economically stagnant, its share of world trade falling.
Less favourable signs are furnished by such plants as Arundo Donax (in Germany), Cicuta virosa and Typha latifolia, which are found in stagnant and torpid waters.
I do n't want to get stagnant in one job, one career or one thing.
I found I was very stagnant in my life and couldn't seem to move forward.
The streets as originally laid out were wide and spacious, but being unpaved and undrained they were no better than mud tracks diversified by piles of garbage and foul-smelling stagnant pools.
Tea thrives best in light friable soils of good depth, through which water percolates freely, the plant being specially impatient of marshy situations and stagnant water.
The latter, besides its more obvious advantages, speedily freed large tracts of country from stagnant water and their inhabitants from ague, and prepared the way for the underground draining which soon after began to be practised.
The existence of sulphuretted hydrogen in great quantities below loo fathoms, the extensive chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate, the stagnant nature of its deep waters, and the absence of deep-sea life are conditions which make it impossible to discuss it along with the physical and biological conditions of the Mediterranean proper.
The water should be run off thoroughly, for a little stagnant water lying in places upon the surface does much injury.
Even the Pedias (ancient Pediaeus) does not reach the sea in summer, and its stagnant waters form unhealthy marshes.
Agricultural or field drainage consists in the freeing of the soil from stagnant and superfluous water by means of surface or underground channels.
Repeated ad nauseam, however, the whole thing becomes hackneyed, stagnant and, dare I say it, dangerously self-referential.
Think about the following... Joints, flanges Crevices let stagnant liquid accumulate, causing locally accelerated corrosion from differential aeration.
As such, he occupies a liminal space, providing an insight into his suspicion regarding fixity as a stagnant and deathlike state.
Having fresh, new content every month, or better, every day, will show that your site is not stagnant.
In the extreme, a reservoir may become virtually stagnant.
Five years on however, and Viacom appears stagnant, and technologically unable to move with the times.
Perfume is not a stagnant fragrance; it changes with body chemistry and time.
In the malarious islet of Asinara a pond of stagnant water was treated with petroleum and all windows were protected with gauze.
The family Phryganeidae have males with foursegmented hairy palps; the larvae inhabit stagnant water and make cases of vegetable fragments.
The efficiency of drainage, digging, hoeing and like operations is accounted for by the manner in which they promote aeration of the soil, raise its temperature and remove its stagnant water.
The Oder and some of the tributaries of the Elbe abound in crayfish, and in the stagnant lakes of East Prussia leeches are bred.
Catholic emancipation and the Reform Bill had deeply stirred, not only the political spirit of Oxford, but also the church feeling which had long been stagnant.
The keeping of swine in a dwelling-house, or so as to be a nuisance, is made an offence punishable by a penalty in an urban district, as also is the suffering of any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar, or within any dwelling-house after notice, and the allowing of the contents of any closet, privy or cesspool to overflow or soak therefrom.
However, in a depressed economic climate with stagnant property values, this same market remains insignificant.
An intermittently stagnant ice front has left a classic series of deglacial landforms around the Lough Fea area.
But laughing at hope and change and progress along with all of this makes the world a very stagnant, self-referential place.
Protozoa can be found in ponds, pools, or in any place where water is rather stagnant.
The group's international sales remained stagnant compared to last year's 5 percent decrease.
I'd been swimming most of the year, but was feeling stagnant.
I 'd been swimming most of the year, but was feeling stagnant.
I see real wages growth as being quite stagnant in the next few years.
The magician 's underwear has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami.
Ammonia carries a scent that resembles the smell of a cat's stagnant urine.
Celebrity Fit Club 5 contestant Dustin Diamond released a sex video in 2006 in an attempt to restart his stagnant acting career.
Thorough drainage should always be given, as stagnant moisture is very injurious.
Moreover, the moon is never stagnant, and it's constantly in flux by changing signs every few hours.
They grow bored quickly andfeel that their life has become stagnant, and regardless of the love they may feel for their cherished partner, a part of their soul feels dead.
Those who let this organic matter, as well as other debris, sit stagnant in their gutters end up with water dripping down in front and sides of their houses and possible citations from their homeowners associations.
Stagnant growth would be detrimental to Facebook because without growth the company cannot move forward.
Fruiting Duckweed (Nertera) - N. depressa is a pretty creeping and minute plant, thickly studded with tiny reddish-orange berries, and with minute round leaves which are suggestive of the Duckweed of our stagnant pools.